You can help support agencies like Cardinal McCloskey Services – directing your gifts to our programs working directly with parents in their homes to teach them new behaviors, new discipline techniques and new ways to confront their own emotional scars from the abuse they suffered as children. Or, you can direct your gift to helping abused children recover from their abuse through foster care programs, counseling programs and after-care programs.

‘I’m sorry!’ I screambut its now much too latehis face has been twisted
into unimaginable hate.

The hurt and the painagain and againoh please God, have mercy!
oh please let it end!

And he finally stops
and heads for the door,
while I lay there motionless
sprawled on the floor.

My name is Sarahand I am but three,tonight my daddy
murdered me.

There are thousands of kids out there just like Sarah. And you can help

It sickens me to read this and view these images. It will disturb even the toughest of the tough! And because you are affected, do something about it!! So all I am asking you to do is take some time to acknowledge that this stuff does happen, it is real, and that people like her dad do live in our society, and pray for child abuse to wither out and die, but also pray for the safety of our youth.

Please pass this poem on as a Blue Ribbon Against Child Abuse because, as crazy as it might sound, it might just indirectly change a life.

All are Non-profits and I have also set up a store at Café Press called Outreach Africa. I just have to get replies as to how to link it to the chosen organisations, alternatively the sales from the store will be donated to one or other. 🙂 Very proud 🙂

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There is so much information on Justin Furstenfeld, his band Blue October, that I simply will not be able to include it all here. Suffice it to say that it will not take a reader of this page long to see why I believe that this band of musicians is well worth getting to know.

Not only do they produce incredible music with lyrics that are heartfelt and heart-wrenching, but Justin himself is open about his fight against Bi-Polar Disorder, Depression and other related Mental Illnesses, and how he has risen above to conquer the downhill spiralling vaccum that was his life.

Information has been sourced from literally hundreds of sources, please refer to credits and acknowledgements. If you are a music lover, I would urge that you spend a few minutes listening to the message they give out. If you are a person suffering with one or other of the psychological/mental conditions that I will discuss later at length, please find comfort in the knjowledge that you are not alone..

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On climate, it’s now or never. They have just over 100 days left to reach a new global treaty to avert climate disaster (and unleash a new green economy) — but are nowhere near getting it done.

We have a choice to make: should we pull out all the stops this month to beat climate change?

Avaaz is considering a massive, network-wide push for a “global wake-up call” to world leaders on September 21st. This would be the biggest organizing effort they’ve ever done, aiming at bringing their whole network out (peacefully!) to the streets, ringing alarms, holding massive rallies in major cities, and gathering to send wake-up messages from schools, homes, and public squares. From all these places, we would flood world leaders with phone calls, and the actual sound of these millions of voices would be recorded, condensed and presented to heads of state at the UN climate summit in New York the next day.

If we do this, Avaaz will spend the next 4 weeks almost non-stop on it, and it will take hundreds of thousands of us joining efforts to pull it together — hosting and attending events, reaching out to communities, using all their creativity and dedication. This is an important decision, and we need to make it together. From now until September 21 — should we do it?

The goal of this wake-up call is a big one: to convince the world’s leaders to meet at the final climate talks in Copenhagen this December and sign an ambitious, fair and binding treaty to stop catastrophic climate change.

Talks on the treaty have been building for years. Now, 100 days from Copenhagen, we’re nearing a tipping point